Genitalia-like email photos lead to paid suspension for state worker

2:08 PM,
May 10, 2013

Written by

Jason Clayworth
Des Moines Register

The paid suspension of a longtime Iowa Department of Transportation supervisor who sent inappropriate emails - including one that depicted a woman's genitalia - was upheld by a state administrative law judge, in a ruling made public today.

Ilo Jon Allen, a 33-year veteran of the department who has worked the last 27 years as a highway maintenance supervisor, was first suspended with pay in August for sending what an internal investigation found to be more than 50 inappropriate emails from his personal email account to the work emails of some of his subordinates.